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IEEE Reliability Society Newsletter Vol. 56, No. 4. November 2010 |
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Table of Content Front page: Society News: IEEE Technical Field Awards (TFA) Call for Nominations IEEE Cloud Forum for Practitioners
held in Monterey, CA Chapter Activities: Technical Activities: Conference Announcements:
International Prognostic Health Management Conference (PHM
2011). Deadline for Paper Submission Extended
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Second Workshop
and Tool Session on DYnamic Aspects in DEpendability Models for
Fault-Tolerant Systems FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS São José dos Campos, São Paulo,
Brazil Held in conjunction with the April 25-29, 2011
IMPORTANT DATES Papers submission deadline: 14 January 2011 Author notification: 25 February 2011 Camera ready due: 11 March 2011 DYADEM-FTS workshop date: 25 April 2011
OVERVIEW The dependability of fault-tolerant systems is usually quantified by using stochastic models which compute the system's dependability from the properties of its components. Most frequently, combinatorial analytic techniques like fault trees or reliability block diagrams are used for this purpose. The above-mentioned techniques are very mature and well understood both in industry and the academic environments. However, their classical solution methods only work for Boolean components and Boolean systems with a static behavior, and only under the assumption that there are no dependencies and interactions between the components of the system. Examples of important properties which cannot be modeled using classical techniques are dependent, cascading and common cause events, imperfect fault coverage, error propagation, load sharing, standby-redundancy, delayed models, multi-phase systems, limited repair facilities and corresponding policies, ageing effects, and so on. Therefore, the classical solution methods based on simplified assumptions can provide inaccurate or even dangerously over-optimistic results. It is the aim of the workshop to discuss novel ideas, methods, algorithms, and software tools for in-depth studies of these dynamic aspects of dependable fault-tolerant systems. Any contribution related to qualitative and quantitative evaluation is welcome. Please refer to website for a list topics covered by the workshop as well as submission details. S. Distefano:
sdistefano@unime.it Workshop Website: http://dyadem.in.tum.de
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